B.W. Read’s Fourth Sunday
Laurel Branch
Wednesday, March 14, 7 pm
Fourth Sunday, a novel by B.W. Read (Because We Read), is the tale of seven women and their journey towards friendship by way of a simple book club. Fourth Sunday is the compilation of six professional African American women: Francesca Cook, Chyla Evans, Clarita Frazier, Allita Irby, Donna Neale and Yolanda Yates. This group met every fourth Sunday to discuss novels on their reading list, socialize and reflect on life’s parallels to people in the novels they read. Disappointed in the disconnect between the literature read and their forward moving lives, each composed chapters reflecting characters loosely based on themselves with a collaborative seventh character. “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,” Toni Morrison said, and so they did. Fourth Sunday is that book, timeless, cosmopolitan literature. The novel incorporates intellect and riveting facts about medical, political and small business state of affairs while balancing playfulness and sensuality. It is funny, it is sad, it is contemporary, but most of all it is real. Meet the characters…

Using their novel, Fourth Sunday: The Journey of a Book Club as a platform, B.W. Read’s mission is to skillfully deliver a meaningful message on synergy and the power of team work to reach goals.

Publications: The Washington Post – May 22, 2011; The Gazette (Prince George’s County) – May 26, 2011, Redbook Magazine – July 2011.
Radio Interviews: WOL, The Talking Feather – July 2011; WPFW, Sophie’s Corner – July 2011.Fourth Sunday, a novel by B.W. Read (Because We Read), is the tale of seven women and their journey towards friendship by way of a simple book club. Fourth Sunday is the compilation of six professional African American women: Francesca Cook, Chyla Evans, Clarita Frazier, Allita Irby, Donna Neale and Yolanda Yates. This group met every fourth Sunday to discuss novels on their reading list, socialize and reflect on life’s parallels to people in the novels they read. Disappointed in the disconnect between the literature read and their forward moving lives, each composed chapters reflecting characters loosely based on themselves with a collaborative seventh character. “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,” Toni Morrison said, and so they did. Fourth Sunday is that book, timeless, cosmopolitan literature. The novel incorporates intellect and riveting facts about medical, political and small business state of affairs while balancing playfulness and sensuality. It is funny, it is sad, it is contemporary, but most of all it is real.

Meet the characters…

Gwen: the catalyst for the book club; an obstetrician/gynecologist, sports enthusiast who learns the hard way that finding and keeping love isn’t easy.
Natalie: workaholic Senate health committee chief of staff who must re-examine her career and life choices when confronted with a racial incident involving her boss.
Adriane: vivacious, twenty-something, climbing the corporate ladder while happily married and expecting her first child.
Brianna: jilted at the altar, she moves to Washington, D.C. and gets exposed to experimentation she didn’t expect.
Camille: beautiful, twice divorced mother of two, who shed her glamorous life in L.A. for Washington, D.C. and struggles to balance her job in banking, her children, and a new love.
Allana: a forty-something newlywed in her second marriage. After being single and independent for ten years, her marriage is strained by forces of nature beyond her control.
Destiny: a woman who has it all; a beautiful home, a career that earns her a six-digit income, a budding business venture in furniture design and a haunting past.

Using their novel, Fourth Sunday: The Journey of a Book Club as a platform, B.W. Read’s mission is to skillfully deliver a meaningful message on synergy and the power of team work to reach goals.

Publications: The Washington Post – May 22, 2011; The Gazette (Prince George’s County) – May 26, 2011, Redbook Magazine – July 2011.
Radio Interviews: WOL, The Talking Feather – July 2011; WPFW, Sophie’s Corner – July 2011.
 

Fourth Sunday, a novel by B.W. Read (Because We Read), is the tale of seven women and their journey towards friendship by way of a simple book club. Fourth Sunday is the compilation of six professional African American women: Francesca Cook, Chyla Evans, Clarita Frazier, Allita Irby, Donna Neale and Yolanda Yates. This group met every fourth Sunday to discuss novels on their reading list, socialize and reflect on life’s parallels to people in the novels they read. Disappointed in the disconnect between the literature read and their forward moving lives, each composed chapters reflecting characters loosely based on themselves with a collaborative seventh character. “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,” Toni Morrison said, and so they did. Fourth Sunday is that book, timeless, cosmopolitan literature. The novel incorporates intellect and riveting facts about medical, political and small business state of affairs while balancing playfulness and sensuality. It is funny, it is sad, it is contemporary, but most of all it is real.

Meet the characters…

Gwen:  the catalyst for the book club; an obstetrician/gynecologist, sports enthusiast who learns the hard way that finding and keeping love isn’t easy.

Natalie:workaholic Senate health committee chief of staff who must re-examine her career and life choices when confronted with a racial incident involving her boss.

Adriane:vivacious, twenty-something, climbing the corporate ladder while happily married and expecting her first child.

Brianna:jilted at the altar, she moves to Washington, D.C. and gets exposed to experimentation she didn’t expect.

Camille:beautiful, twice divorced mother of two, who shed her glamorous life in L.A. for Washington, D.C. and struggles to balance her job in banking, her children, and a new love.

Allana:a forty-something newlywed in her second marriage. After being single and independent for ten years, her marriage is strained by forces of nature beyond her control.

Destiny:a woman who has it all; a beautiful home, a career that earns her a six-digit income, a budding business venture in furniture design and a haunting past.

Using their novel, Fourth Sunday: The Journey of a Book Club as a platform, B.W. Read’s mission is to skillfully deliver a meaningful message on synergy and the power of team work to reach goals.

Publications:The Washington Post – May 22, 2011; The Gazette (Prince George’s County) – May 26, 2011, Redbook Magazine – July 2011.

Radio Interviews:WOL, The Talking Feather – July 2011; WPFW, Sophie’s Corner – July 2011. 

B.W. Read’s Fourth Sunday
Laurel Branch
Wednesday, March 14, 7 pm
Fourth Sunday, a novel by B.W. Read (Because We Read), is the tale of seven women and their journey towards friendship by way of a simple book club. Fourth Sunday is the compilation of six professional African American women: Francesca Cook, Chyla Evans, Clarita Frazier, Allita Irby, Donna Neale and Yolanda Yates. This group met every fourth Sunday to discuss novels on their reading list, socialize and reflect on life’s parallels to people in the novels they read. Disappointed in the disconnect between the literature read and their forward moving lives, each composed chapters reflecting characters loosely based on themselves with a collaborative seventh character. “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,” Toni Morrison said, and so they did. Fourth Sunday is that book, timeless, cosmopolitan literature. The novel incorporates intellect and riveting facts about medical, political and small business state of affairs while balancing playfulness and sensuality. It is funny, it is sad, it is contemporary, but most of all it is real.

Meet the characters…

Gwen: the catalyst for the book club; an obstetrician/gynecologist, sports enthusiast who learns the hard way that finding and keeping love isn’t easy.
Natalie: workaholic Senate health committee chief of staff who must re-examine her career and life choices when confronted with a racial incident involving her boss.
Adriane: vivacious, twenty-something, climbing the corporate ladder while happily married and expecting her first child.
Brianna: jilted at the altar, she moves to Washington, D.C. and gets exposed to experimentation she didn’t expect.
Camille: beautiful, twice divorced mother of two, who shed her glamorous life in L.A. for Washington, D.C. and struggles to balance her job in banking, her children, and a new love.
Allana: a forty-something newlywed in her second marriage. After being single and independent for ten years, her marriage is strained by forces of nature beyond her control.
Destiny: a woman who has it all; a beautiful home, a career that earns her a six-digit income, a budding business venture in furniture design and a haunting past.

Using their novel, Fourth Sunday: The Journey of a Book Club as a platform, B.W. Read’s mission is to skillfully deliver a meaningful message on synergy and the power of team work to reach goals.

Publications: The Washington Post – May 22, 2011; The Gazette (Prince George’s County) – May 26, 2011, Redbook Magazine – July 2011.
Radio Interviews: WOL, The Talking Feather – July 2011; WPFW, Sophie’s Corner – July 2011.

Fourth Sunday, a novel by B.W. Read (Because We Read), is the tale of seven women and their journey towards friendship by way of a simple book club. Fourth Sunday is the compilation of six professional African American women: Francesca Cook, Chyla Evans, Clarita Frazier, Allita Irby, Donna Neale and Yolanda Yates. This group met every fourth Sunday to discuss novels on their reading list, socialize and reflect on life’s parallels to people in the novels they read. Disappointed in the disconnect between the literature read and their forward moving lives, each composed chapters reflecting characters loosely based on themselves with a collaborative seventh character. “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,” Toni Morrison said, and so they did. Fourth Sunday is that book, timeless, cosmopolitan literature. The novel incorporates intellect and riveting facts about medical, political and small business state of affairs while balancing playfulness and sensuality. It is funny, it is sad, it is contemporary, but most of all it is real.

Meet the characters…

Gwen: the catalyst for the book club; an obstetrician/gynecologist, sports enthusiast who learns the hard way that finding and keeping love isn’t easy.
Natalie: workaholic Senate health committee chief of staff who must re-examine her career and life choices when confronted with a racial incident involving her boss.
Adriane: vivacious, twenty-something, climbing the corporate ladder while happily married and expecting her first child.
Brianna: jilted at the altar, she moves to Washington, D.C. and gets exposed to experimentation she didn’t expect.
Camille: beautiful, twice divorced mother of two, who shed her glamorous life in L.A. for Washington, D.C. and struggles to balance her job in banking, her children, and a new love.
Allana: a forty-something newlywed in her second marriage. After being single and independent for ten years, her marriage is strained by forces of nature beyond her control.
Destiny: a woman who has it all; a beautiful home, a career that earns her a six-digit income, a budding business venture in furniture design and a haunting past.

Using their novel, Fourth Sunday: The Journey of a Book Club as a platform, B.W. Read’s mission is to skillfully deliver a meaningful message on synergy and the power of team work to reach goals.

Publications: The Washington Post – May 22, 2011; The Gazette (Prince George’s County) – May 26, 2011, Redbook Magazine – July 2011.
Radio Interviews: WOL, The Talking Feather – July 2011; WPFW, Sophie’s Corner – July 2011.
Fourth Sunday, a novel by B.W. Read (Because We Read), is the tale of seven women and their journey towards friendship by way of a simple book club. Fourth Sunday is the compilation of six professional African American women: Francesca Cook, Chyla Evans, Clarita Frazier, Allita Irby, Donna Neale and Yolanda Yates. This group met every fourth Sunday to discuss novels on their reading list, socialize and reflect on life’s parallels to people in the novels they read. Disappointed in the disconnect between the literature read and their forward moving lives, each composed chapters reflecting characters loosely based on themselves with a collaborative seventh character. “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it,” Toni Morrison said, and so they did. Fourth Sunday is that book, timeless, cosmopolitan literature. The novel incorporates intellect and riveting facts about medical, political and small business state of affairs while balancing playfulness and sensuality. It is funny, it is sad, it is contemporary, but most of all it is real.

Meet the characters…

Gwen: the catalyst for the book club; an obstetrician/gynecologist, sports enthusiast who learns the hard way that finding and keeping love isn’t easy.
Natalie: workaholic Senate health committee chief of staff who must re-examine her career and life choices when confronted with a racial incident involving her boss.
Adriane: vivacious, twenty-something, climbing the corporate ladder while happily married and expecting her first child.
Brianna: jilted at the altar, she moves to Washington, D.C. and gets exposed to experimentation she didn’t expect.
Camille: beautiful, twice divorced mother of two, who shed her glamorous life in L.A. for Washington, D.C. and struggles to balance her job in banking, her children, and a new love.
Allana: a forty-something newlywed in her second marriage. After being single and independent for ten years, her marriage is strained by forces of nature beyond her control.
Destiny: a woman who has it all; a beautiful home, a career that earns her a six-digit income, a budding business venture in furniture design and a haunting past.

Using their novel, Fourth Sunday: The Journey of a Book Club as a platform, B.W. Read’s mission is to skillfully deliver a meaningful message on synergy and the power of team work to reach goals.

Publications: The Washington Post – May 22, 2011; The Gazette (Prince George’s County) – May 26, 2011, Redbook Magazine – July 2011.
Radio Interviews: WOL, The Talking Feather – July 2011; WPFW, Sophie’s Corner – July 2011.